Rare books including first editions reated to science, medicine, and natural history. Specializing in Anthropology/Sociology, trade catalogues, birds, and botany.
vp: vd. Edison, Thomas, Charles, Mina, etc. An finely bound collection of books from the libraries of Thomas... Read More about Collection of 49 volumes all belonging to various members of the Edison family
Price: $25,000
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1880. Second edition, later issue, with "Poker Principles and Chance Laws" (pp. 143-174) inserted at end. The second edition of this foundational work on poker. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC — is, along with Winterblossom's The... Read More about The Complete Poker Player
Price: $1,250
Danbury, Conn: Behrens Publishing Company, 1880. Second edition, wrappered issue with Behrens imprint. The first Behrens edition of this foundational work on poker, essentially a wrappered issue of the second Dick & Fitzgerald edition of 1880. The rare first edition of 1875 — with only one copy located on OCLC... Read More about The Complete Poker Player
Price: $900
Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1895. First edition. Read More about Birds from Moidart and Elsewhere
Price: $150
Paris: J.B. Baillière, 1866. First edition. Presentation Copy. Inscribed, "A Monsieur Jules Kinckel témoingage d'affection de l'auteur E. Blanchard." Read More about Les poissons des eaux douces de la France. Anatomie - physiologie - description des espèces -...
Price: $450
À Paris: Chez l’auteur. Et se vend À Amsterdam, chez Pierre Mortier, 1699. Sixth edition (first published 1683). The Art of Firing a Mortar. Blondel (1618-1686), brilliant mathematician, architect engineer, and topographer, was admitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1669. He became director of the Royal Academy of... Read More about L’art de jetter les bombes
Price: $2,000
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London: Published for the Anthropological Society by Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, Green, 1865. First Edition. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840) was the father of anthropological classification, and, through his study of his remarkable collection of human skulls, virtually established the science of craniometry and physical anthropology. Read More about The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. With memoirs of him by [K.F.H.]...
Price: $350
Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co, 1927. First edition. Ashley Montagu's copy, signed by him. With a Typed Note, signed, about the importance of this book and Boas to him. Boas and Ruth Benedict were his advisors while he studying for his Ph.D from 1933-37. Read More about Primitive Art
Price: $250
Brooklyn, N.Y: 264-266-268 & 270 Fulton Street, c. 1889. Read More about The Bolton Drug Co. Illustrated Price List
Price: $275
Philadelphia: Printed [by W. W. Woodward] for B. Davies, No. 68, Market Street and T. Stephens, No. 57, South Second Street, 1795. First American edition of selections from “Secrets Concernant les Arts et Metiers.” The English translation first published in London 1775 as “Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades.” the... Read More about One Thousand Valuable Secrets into the elegant and Useful Arts Collected from the practice of the...
Price: $1,500
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company Publishers, [1923]. First American edition from English sheets. Atomic and Electron Theories. The eminent German physicist was especially noted for his work on the atomic structure, development of quantum mechanics and his studies in relativity. He was winner of the Nobel Prize in... Read More about The Constitution of Matter. Modern Atomic and Electron Theories. Translated from the Second...
Price: $75
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, [1924]. First edition in English. Nobel Prize Winner Born's interpretation Of Einstein's great Theory of Relativity. Read More about Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Translated by Henry L. Brose
Price: $200
Boston: Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation, November 8, 1843. Stock certificate for thirty-six shares of the Boston and Providence Rail Road, signed by Henry Dalton--cancelled November 16, 1843 (in manuscript). Read More about Boston and Providence Rail Road Corporation
Price: $150
London: Orr and Smith, 1835. First edition. Read More about Popular Botany
Price: $150
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1872. Nouvelle édition (Vingt-Troisième). Read More about Dictionnaire Universal d'Histoie et de Géographie...Ouvrage Revu et Continué par A. Cahssing
Price: $150
London: Printed for W. Mears, 1726. Fifth edition, with an Appendix. Read More about New Improvements of Planting and Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical
Price: $750
London: for the Author and sold by Longman, Hurst Rees, et. al, 1812. First edition. Read More about Clavis Calendaria; or, A Compendious Analysis of the Calendar: Illustrated with Ecclesiastical,...
Price: $300
[Boston: Printed by Wells and Lilly, 1818]. First American edition. Read More about Dissertation Third: Exhibiting a General View of the Progress of Chemical Philosophy from the...
Price: $250
Cleveland, Ohio: The Bird Research Foundation, 1951. First edition. Read More about Arizona and Its Bird Life. A Naturalist's Adventures with the Nesting Birds on the Deserts,...
Price: $200
N.d. Original Paul Bransom Drawing. A strong and attractive portrait. Paul Bransom (1885-1979), a native of Washington, D.C., received early training in mechanical drawing which led him to analyze and record the individual characteristics of each of the animals he drew. He had a long and distinguished career as an animal..... Read More about Vandergo Monkey
Price: $750
New York: The Century Co, [1926]. Inscribed. Brasher was a well-known bird artist, whose most noted work was "Birds and Trees of North America". This is an early work with a fine inscription, “To my friend 'Marguerite' An officer in the army fighting for a Square deal to the little... Read More about Secrets of the Friendly Woods
Price: $150
c. 1923. STONE & WEBSTER CO. IN BRAZIL. A collection of photos of mostly local scenes, as well as construction projects and employees of Stone & Webster Co., and subsidiary, and Brightman & Co., Inc. Photos include William T. McCaskey and Mayor of Codo on mule; handcars transporting passengers and... Read More about Photograpas: photograph album of local scenes and construction projects in various towns, in Brazil
Price: $450
Hartford: F.J. Huntington, 1832. First edition. Hunter & McAlpine call this a 'popular...guide to mental hygiene with the stress on social influences.." Brigham was a pyschiatrist who became the first superindendant of the Utica Psychiatric Cente in 1842 and in 1844, became one of the founding members of the Association... Read More about Remarks on the Influence of Mental Cultivation upon Health
Price: $400
Paris: C. Reinwald et Cie, 1877. First edition. Ashley Montagu's Copy. A fine association copy of a seminal work in the field from the library of the renowned Engish anthropologist, Ashley Montagu. The enormously versatile Broca is perhaps better known now for his studies of aphasia and localized areas of... Read More about Mémoires d'Anthropologie Zooloqique et Biologique
Price: $350
